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10021Education Versus Traininghttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3480-Education-Versus-Training.html
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<p>Professional learning, often referred to as training,&#160;has been in companies for a long time.&#160; But as <a href="https://msu.edu/~sleightd/trainhst.html" target="_blank">a history of&#160; training</a> would show, that training is different from education and their evolutions have differed and crossed paths at times.</p>
<p>Education is instruction in more general knowledge, such as the history of the society, or mathematics. Training teaches how to do a specific task, such as building or running a machine.&#160; As societies developed, there accumulated more knowledge than people could pick up on their own or learn informally from others.</p>
<p>That training history would reach back to antiquity when "On-The-Job Training" was the way people learned a job or career. In the&#160;Middle Ages, the apprenticeship was the new trend - learning from an expert while on the job. The&#160;Industrial Revolution brought about actual classrooms and factory schools with more formal training inside the company.&#160;</p>
<p>I thought about this history when I was <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-10-19-how-kristen-swanson-applies-her-classroom-experience-to-lead-professional-learning-at-slack" target="_blank">reading about the work of the Director of Learning at Slack</a>, Kristen Swanson. Her&#160;job is to develop training&#160;for the tech company's employees and to help explain their messaging tool to customers around the globe.&#160;Swanson came to the company after an earlier career in EdTech. She started in education as an elementary school&#160;teacher, then served as a district director of technology, moved to directing a&#160;research department at BrightBytes, and then founded&#160;the Edcamp Foundation. That last role helped teachers run free, grassroots professional-development workshops.&#160;</p>
<p>Directing learning at a company like <a href="https://slack.com/" target="_blank">Slack</a>, must be very different, right?&#160;</p>
<p>Amazon operates its own education division, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000412651" target="_blank">Amazon Education</a>. It currently offers products and services aimed at K-12 classrooms, such as TenMarks, an online math and writing program, and Inspire, a directory of online educational materials where teachers can find and share teaching materials. And&#160;Candace Thille, a professor of education at Stanford University, is <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-01-29-amazon-taps-stanford-professor-candace-thille-to-lead-internal-professional-learning" target="_blank">now Amazon's&#160;Director of Learning Science and Engineering</a>.&#160;</p>
<p>A newish trend is for large technology companies to hire former educators to lead training and education efforts. Is professional learning outside academia becoming more like learning inside academia?</p>
<p>Returning to that training history, we saw that "vestibule training" emerged at the start of the 20th century blending the&#160;classroom with on-the-job training&#160;or "near-the-job" training. The training room was located close to the workplace and equipped with the same machines, equipment and technology that are used in production. The trainer was usually a skilled worker or supervisor, much like the much older apprentice model.</p>
<p>During and after the two world wars, there was a&#160;need to train large numbers of defense workers because of increased&#160;demand for products and a loss of workers to the military. Several shifts occurred during this period.&#160;Training was&#160;done by supervisors who were being trained how to teach. Training classes were smaller, generally 9-11 workers.</p>
<p>As training departments became established in many companies, so did ways of providing more efficient, less expensive methods of training. Individualized automated instruction came into play, and was the basis for CBT (computer-based training) which is still used in various forms in&#160;companies today.</p>
<p>Has training been learning from education, or has education been trying to include training in the curriculum?</p>
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:53:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3480-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Groundhogs and the Turn of the Yearhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3479-Groundhogs-and-the-Turn-of-the-Year.html
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<p><!-- s9ymdb:6798 --><img alt="groundhog" class="serendipity_image_center" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/groundhog.jpg" style="width:500px" />Today is the anniversary for Serendipity35 which begins its thirteenth year of in existence. It's easy to remember because it is also Groundhog Day here in the U.S.</p>
<p>This is a rather silly celebration that is based on the notion that if the groundhog sees its shadow as it comes out of its den today, we have six weeks of winter to go. If the day is cloudy and the groundhog sees no shadow, it is a sign of coming spring and so it stays above ground. Why a cloudy day would signal an early spring and a sunny day would mean more winter has never made any sense to me.</p>
<p>If there is any fact or even some science to this silly day, it would be in the past. The ancient peoples and our own Native Americans knew that the behavior of animals, insects, and plants could help predict the weather. They took that to mean that these things might also be indicators of&#160;the coming and going of seasons.&#160;</p>
<p>Consider it weather lore, but there are lots of ideas about <a href="https://paradelle.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/signs-winter-to-come/" target="_blank">how to predict the severity of winter</a> based on natural indicators. If I want to make some leap to education here, I guess I would have to say that we do look to <a href="http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/categories/22-Trends" target="_blank">trends</a> outside education (business, technology, media etc.) as ways to predict where education might be headed. I'm working on a piece for next week today about how corporate professional learning is pulling educators into top roles at companies like Amazon. Will that affect higher education?</p>
<p>My Groundhog Day tradition has become to watch the film, <em>Groundhog Day</em>, which I have seen many times (which is actually pretty meta if you know what the film is about). I believe&#160;that <a href="https://paradelle.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/zen-groundhog-day/" target="_blank">the film is a whole lot more than just a comedy</a>, and I am not alone in that opinion. Connect the movie&#160;to education? Well, I have seen in my 40 years in education a lot of repeating of things with little changes in the hopes of making things better - a theme of the film. Most of the time it results in minor improvements, sometimes in worst results, but we keep trying new approaches. Sometimes we see sunshine or clouds and think it will indicate what is to come. It is a 50/50 possibility, so why not predict.</p>
<p>I do know that the vernal equinox will arrive on time, but even that may or may not mean that springlike weather&#160;will arrive. And I do know that the spring semester will end on time and a new one will begin whether or not we see a shadow.</p>
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Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:57:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3479-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Don't Fear the Singularity, Embrace the Multiplicityhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3476-Dont-Fear-the-Singularity,-Embrace-the-Multiplicity.html
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<p>Have you heard Stephen Hawking and&#160;Elon Musk raising concerns about AI and the singularity? These are fears that others have voiced for many decades and that have filled science-fiction stories for even longer. Singularity is the term given to that point when machines will surpass us.</p>
<p>That point will arrive, though no predictions have so far been correct on when it will occur. A more reasonable approach seem to me to be what some have called the "multiplicity."&#160; That is a way of viewing what is coming as a time of humans working more closely with machines rather than humans versus the machines.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/forget-the-robot-singularity-apocalypse-lets-talk-about-the-multiplicity/" target="_blank">An article in <em>Wired</em></a> quotes C Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg as saying that the multiplicity is "something that's happening right now, and it's the idea of humans and machines working together.”&#160;</p>
<p>I know all the automotive buzz is about driverless cars, but today in my car algorithms are guiding me&#160;to my&#160;destination, reminding me to stay in my lane, gently applying the brakes and steering when I am less attentive than I should be. My new car seems to be constantly flashing and beeping about something. I fear that the more it does, the more it distracts me from driving. Okay, maybe not that bad.</p>
<p>It is one thing to put your learning into the virtual hands of algorithms, but I am already entrusting a bit of my life protection in the car to them.</p>
<p>The multiplicity concept is not that new. <a href="https://medium.com/davos-2015/lets-ditch-the-singularity-and-focus-on-multiplicity-3b397bc62449" target="_blank">A talk at&#160;Davos in 2015</a>&#160;points out that though there are now over a million robots working in factories around the world, we still don’t have them in our homes.</p>
<p>Hans Moravec pointed out 3 decades ago&#160;that “Tasks that are hard for humans, like precision spot welding, are easy for robots, while tasks that are easy for humans, like clearing the dinner table, are very hard for robots.”</p>
<p>The hospital robot that&#160;delivers drugs and linens to nurses and the ones in warehouses rolling 24/7&#160;through the aisles scanning inventory or puling out items for orders hasn't necessarily surpassed humans in intelligence. But it is willing to work all day and night without breaks or pay. Do all robots&#160;replace humans? Much research says no, that they are more likely to enhance human workers or change what humans will do.&#160;</p>
<p>But the fear of the singularity remains.</p>
<p>Amazon's fulfillment centers use around 100,000 robots to bring&#160;products to people who are still better at packing them for shipping. Those clever robots still have trouble with simple human tasks like picking up things with their end effectors (hands).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Multiplicity-Eugene-Levy/dp/0767806808/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1516977376&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=multiplicity+dvd+michael+keaton&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=paradelles-20&amp;linkId=582000859458afb8879e40f06524c455" target="_blank"><img src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0767806808&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=paradelles-20" style="float:right; margin-left:9px; margin-right:9px" /></a><img alt="" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=paradelles-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=0767806808" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important; width:1px" />The word multiplicity actually makes me think of a comedy film with Michael Keaton. In that <a href="http://amzn.to/2FjKTdS" target="_blank"><em>Multiplicity</em></a>, an overly busy human is able to clone himself multiple times in order to get done all the things he wants to do and still have time to live a life with his family.&#160;&#160;</p>
<p>An update of that 1996 film would probably change cloning to robots.&#160;</p>
<p>And that has really been the ultimate goal with AI and robots - to empower humans, not replace them. But the&#160;job-killing robot scenario is a tough one to dispel and you can find examples of jobs that disappear because of automation. San Francisco is supposedly considering a tax on robots that replace human workers.</p>
<p>Long before robots, automation threatened and replaced&#160;some human labor. The transition to common robot and AI use in our lives will likely be more gradual.</p>
<p>Yes, <a href="https://www.hbo.com/westworld"><em>Westworld</em></a> is scary, both in how the robots interact with humans, and in how the humans treat the robots.</p>
<p>When the singularity does arrive, make sure you know how to power down that robot.</p>
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Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:55:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3476-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Education Trends Are Technology Trendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3470-Education-Trends-Are-Technology-Trends.html
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<p>I title this article "Education Trends Are Technology Trends" but I'm not sure I really agree with that statement. It does seem that way though if you look at the many articles about education trends and developments that appear at he end and beginning of years.</p>
<p>Reading one <a href="http://etale.org/main/2018/01/02/10-education-curriculum-trends-developments-to-watch-in-2018/">article by&#160;Bernard Bull</a> about things to watch in this new year,&#160;he lists ten curricular trends to watch. But what I first noticed was how many involve technology.</p>
<p>Some from his list are obviously rooted in digital technologies:<br />
AR and VR Education Software Tied to Curricular Standards<br />
Citizenship and Digital Citizenship Curricula<br />
Cartoon-ish and Simplistic Game-Based Learning Tied to State Testing<br />
Increasingly Sophisticated Game-Based Curricula Across Disciplines<br />
Reductionist Data Analysis Driving Curricular Decisions<br />
Curricula Focused upon Non-Cognitive Skill Development<br />
Self-Directed Learning Management Tools</p>
<p>I have been reading for years about how gamification and then it combined with applications of AR and VR would change education, but I still don't see it happening to any great extent. I wouldn't ignore it, but I don't believe 2018 will be dramatically different than 2017 in these areas.</p>
<p>But some items on his list that seem less tech-based, such as "Integration of Curricular and Co-Curricular Learning," still use tech. In writing about community-based programs, after-school programs, informal learning, self-directed projects, personal reading and experimentation, personal learning networks, and in-school and out-of-school extracurricular activities/hobbies/sports, Bull brings in&#160;things like digital badges. And the competency-based education movement,&#160;workforce development, corporate training, and continuing education are all areas that rely a great deal on digital applications.</p>
<p>Obviously, big data and learning analytics have made inroads into education, more at the administrative level I would say than in with individual teachers. This will expand this year. I agree with Bull that unfortunately we will pull more and more data, but still have "data-illiterate people trying to make sense of new data sources, dashboards, and incremental reports." This in the short-term will not be as useful as it could be.</p>
<p>Perhaps I am just old school, but I am still more interested in things like experiential education curricula and student-centered and self-directed learning projects that may not require any additional technology.&#160;What they may require is better partnerships with places that can offer students experiential education.</p>
<p>If you can look beyond&#160;test scores and ways to document progress based on state and national standards - and that is not easy for someone in a classroom, especially in K-12 - then self-directed learning can grow. I'm not sure that "Self-Directed Learning Management Tools" will be the reason it succeeds.</p>
<p>You could flip this post's title and ask if technology trends are education trends. If the new things for TV and media consumption is on-demand and streaming, will that move into education? It already has moved in.&#160;</p>
<p>But who is driving the changes - technology or education? I would say it is technology, though it should be education.&#160;</p>
<p>If I had to make one prediction for education in 2018, it would be: More of the Same.</p>
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:39:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3470-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Going Horizontalhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3398-Going-Horizontal.html
Education 2.0MOOCTechTrendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3398-Going-Horizontal.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=33980http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3398ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6779 --><img alt="vertical horizontal" class="serendipity_image_center" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/vertical_horizontal.png" style="border-style:solid; border-width:0px; float:right; margin:2px 11px; width:200px" title="vertical horizontal" />In microeconomics and management, going vertical or vertical integration occurs when the supply chain of a company is owned by that company. For example, if a car manufacturer also produces its own steel, tires and batteries.</p>
<p>This is in&#160;contrast&#160;with horizontal integration, wherein a company produces several items which are related to one another.</p>
<p>Higher education has been a vertical enterprise for centuries. We keep knowledge creation, teaching, testing, and credentialing all under one company/college banner.</p>
<p>These are terms from&#160;economics and business. Are they applicable to discussions about education?</p>
<p>Horizontal integration often occurs in the business world by&#160;internal expansion, acquisition or merger. Of course, that might happen in education too, but there are also signs that it is happening in other ways.</p>
<p>When&#160;MOOCs were the big news five years ago, some people saw this as a shift <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/11/17/shakeup-higher-education/Wi5FQz2JYstDnYDlUaUfdI/story.html" target="_blank">from a vertically integrated model to a horizontally integrated one</a>&#160;by decoupling teaching and learning from the campus testing and credentialing.</p>
<p>In looking for further examples of vertical and horizontal integration in education, the examples I found were mostly in medical education.&#160;</p>
<p>"<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15642020" target="_blank">Vertical and horizontal integration of knowledge and skills - a working model" (Snyman WD, Kroon J.)</a>&#160;looks at an integrated outcomes-based curriculum for dentistry at the University of Pretoria in 1997.</p>
<p>In "<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11948961" target="_blank">Horizontal and vertical integration of academic disciplines in the medical school curriculum (Vidic B, Weitlauf HM)</a>&#160;looks at pedagogical shifts caused by&#160;the rapid expansion of new scientific information and the introduction of new technology in operative and diagnostic medicine.</p>
<p>In more general terms, assessment alignment is often the reason for both&#160;<a href="http://images.pearsonassessments.com/images/tmrs/tmrs_rg/HorizontalVerticalAlignment.pdf" target="_blank">horizontal and vertical alignment in education</a>. Alignment is typically understood as the agreement between a set of content&#160;standards and an assessment used to measure those standards. By establishing&#160;content standards, stakeholders in an education system determine what students&#160;are expected to know and be able to do at each grade level.</p>
<p>Probably, it is best when education goes both vertically and horizontally.&#160;</p>
<p>Horizontal information exchange can be&#160;teachers sharing methodology, students sharing information, students helping each other learn.</p>
<p>When a curriculum is truly vertically aligned or vertically coherent, what students learn in one lesson, course, or grade level prepares them for the next lesson, course, or grade level. I know teaching is supposed to be structured and logically sequenced so that learning progressively prepares them for more challenging, higher-level work. I saw that structured sequencing more in my K-12 teaching than I do in higher education which is more siloed.&#160;</p>
<p>Let's work on going more horizontal, higher ed.</p>
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:08:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3398-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Event-Based Internethttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3473-Event-Based-Internet.html
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<p>Event-based Internet is going to be something you will hear more about this year. Though I had heard the term used, the first real application of it that I experienced was a game.&#160;But don't think this is all about fun and games. Look online and you will find examples of event-based Internet biosurveillance and&#160;<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1020791/?reload=true" target="_blank">event-based Internet robot teleoperation systems</a>&#160;and other very sophisticated uses, especially connected to the Internet of Things (IoT).</p>
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6788 --><img alt="HQ" class="serendipity_image_left" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/hq.jpg" style="margin-left:9px; margin-right:9px; width:250px" title="HQ" />What did more than a million people do this past Sunday night at 9pm ET? They tuned in on their mobile devices to <a href="https://qz.com/1169800/hq-trivia-has-built-a-devout-following-and-all-of-america-will-soon-find-out-why/" target="_blank">HQ Trivia</a>, a game show, on their phones.&#160;&#160;</p>
<p>For a few <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hq-trivia-app-puts-on-demand-generation-on-a-strict-schedule-1513870073" target="_blank">generations that have become used to time-shifting their viewing</a>, this real-time game is a switch.&#160;</p>
<p>The HQ app has had early issues in scaling to the big numbers with game delays,&#160;video lag and times when the game just had to be rebooted. But it already has at least one imitator called "The Q" which looks almost&#160;identical in design, and imitation is supposed to be a form of flattery.</p>
<p>This 12-question trivia quiz has money prizes. Usually, the prize is $2000, but sometimes it jumps to $10 or $20K. But since there are multiple survivors of the 12 questions that win, the prizes are often less than $25 each.</p>
<p>Still, I see the show's potential (Is it actually a "show?") Business model? Sponsors,&#160;commercial breaks,&#160;sponsors and product placement in the questions, answers and banter in-between questions.</p>
<p>The bigger trend here is that this is a return to&#160;TV "appointment viewing."&#160; Advertisers like that and it only really occurs these days with sports, some news and award shows. (HQ pulled in its first audience of more than a million Sunday during the Golden Globe Awards, so...)&#160;</p>
<p>And is there some education connection in all this?&#160; Event-based Internet, like its TV equivalent, is engaging. Could it bring back <a href="http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/categories/48-The-Disconnected" target="_blank">"The Disconnected" learner</a>?&#160;&#160;</p>
<p>I found a&#160;<a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20020022514" target="_blank">NASA report on "Lessons Learned from Real-Time, Event-Based Internet Science Communications."</a>&#160; This report is focused on&#160;sharing science activities in real-time in order to involve and engage students and the public about science.</p>
<p><a href="http://lrc.tnu.edu.vn/upload/collection/brief/7892_9783642197239.pdf" target="_blank">Event-based distributed systems</a> are being used in areas such as enterprise management, information dissemination, finance,<br />
environmental monitoring and geo-spatial systems.</p>
<p>Education has been "event-based" for hundreds of years. But learners have been time-shifting learning via distance education and especially via online learning for only a few decades. Event-based learning sounds a bit like hybrid or blended learning. But one difference is that learners are probably not going to tune in and be engaged with just a live lecture. Will it take a real event and maybe even gamification to get live learning?&#160;</p>
<p>In all my years teaching online, I have never been able to have all of a course's student attend a "live" session either because of time zone differences, work schedules or perhaps content that just wasn't compelling enough.</p>
<p>What will "<strong>Event-based Learning"</strong> look like?</p>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:33:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3473-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/The Trends at the NJEDge Conference 2018http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3472-The-Trends-at-the-NJEDge-Conference-2018.html
EdTechEventsTechTrendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3472-The-Trends-at-the-NJEDge-Conference-2018.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34720http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3472ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p>There are so many posts I have the past few weeks about trend for education and technology, but one way of seeing what trends may emerge this year is by looking at the tracks, presentations and keynote speakers at EdTech conferences.&#160;</p>
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6787 --><img alt="logo" class="serendipity_image_left" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/NJEdge-LogoR.png" style="border-style:solid; border-width:0px; width:222px" />I'll be moderating a track next week at NJEdge.Net's Annual Conference:&#160;<strong><a href="https://njedge.net/njedgecon2018/" target="_blank">NJEdgeCon2018</a></strong>&#160;"DIGITAL LEADERSHIP &amp; ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION"&#160;January 11 &amp; 12, 2018 in New Jersey.&#160; My track is, naturally, Education and Technology which has presentations on&#160;best practices, innovations and the effectiveness associated with current LMS and online learning tools,&#160;effective infrastructure, resources, sustainability models and integrated assessment tools.</p>
<p>But if you look at the other tracks offered, you can see that INFORMATION Technology outweighs<em> instructional</em> technology here.&#160;Other tracks at the conference are Big Data &amp; Analytics, Networking &amp; Data Security, Customer Support &amp; Service Excellence,&#160; Aligning Business &amp; Technology Strategies. and Transformation Products &amp; Services.</p>
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6782 --><img alt="" class="serendipity_image_center" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/amberMac.JPG" style="float:right; margin-left:12px; margin-right:12px; width:176px" /><strong><a href="http://ambermac.com/" target="_blank">Amber Mac</a></strong> (as in MacArthur) will talk&#160;about <strong>adaptation</strong> and the accelerating pace of corporate culture in the digital economy.</p>
<p>I have followed her career for a decade from her early tech TV and podcast venture to her current consulting business. She&#160;helps companies adapt to, anticipate, and capitalize on lightning-quick changes—from leadership to social media to the Internet of Things, from marketing to customer service to digital parenting and beyond. It’s not about innovation, she says; it’s about adaptation.</p>
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6783 --><img alt="" class="serendipity_image_left" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/boyer.jpg" style="width:165px" />When it comes to teachers and technologies, the battle cry of Virginia Tech professor&#160;<a href="http://www.thejohnboyer.com/" target="_blank"><strong>John Boyer</strong></a> is <strong>embrace, not replace</strong>. In his talk, he presents his view that the&#160;best teachers will embrace&#160;technologies that help them better communicate with students, but do not fear because those technologies will never replace human to human interaction. But blending the best communicators with the best technology has to offer will produce some amazing and unpredictable opportunities!</p>
<p><br />
<!-- s9ymdb:6784 --><img alt="" class="serendipity_image_right" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/Wayne-Brown.png" style="width:142px" /><strong>Wayne Brown</strong>, CEO&#160;and Founder of Center for Higher Ed CIO Studies (CHECS), will talk in his&#160;session on longitudinal higher education CIO research and the importance of <strong>technology leaders</strong> aligning technology innovations and initiatives with the needs of the higher education institution. His two-part survey methodology enables him to compare and contrast multiple perspectives about higher education technology leaders. The results provide essential information regarding the experiences and background an individual should possess to serve as a higher education CIO. In collaboration with NJEdge, Wayne will collect data from NJEdge higher education CIOs and will compare the national results with those of the NJ CIOs.</p>
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6785 --><img alt="" class="serendipity_image_left" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/tim_renick.jpg" style="width:142px" /><strong>Timothy Renick</strong> (a man of many titles: Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success, Vice Provost, and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University) is talking about "<strong>Using Data and Analytics to Eliminate Achievement Gaps</strong>."&#160; The&#160;student-centered and analytics-informed programs at GSU&#160;has raised graduation rates by 22% and closed all achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, and income-level. It now awards more bachelor’s degrees to African Americans than any other college or university in the nation.&#160;Through a discussion of innovations ranging from chatbots and predictive analytics to meta-majors and completion grants, the session covers lessons learned from Georgia State’s transformation and outlines several practical and low-cost steps that campuses can take to improve outcomes for underserved students.</p>
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6786 --><img alt="" class="serendipity_image_right" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/greg_davies.jpg" style="width:142px" /><strong>Greg Davies</strong>' topic is "The Power of <strong>Mobile Communications Strategies </strong>and <strong>Predictive Analytics </strong>for Student Success and Workforce Development."&#160;The technology that has been used to transform, to both good and bad ends, most other major industries can connect the valuable resources available on campus to the students who need them most with minimal human resources. Technology has been used to personalize the digital experience in such industries as banking, retail, information and media, and others by reaching consumers via mobile technology.&#160;Higher Education has, in some cases, been slow to adapt innovative and transformative technology. Yet, its power to transform the student engagement and success experience has been proven. With the help of thought leaders in industry and education, Greg discusses how the industry can help achieve the goal of ubiquity in the use of innovative student success technologies and predictive data analytics to enable unprecedented levels of student success and, as a consequence, workforce development.</p>
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:00:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3472-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Hello LX: Learning Experience Designhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3402-Hello-LX-Learning-Experience-Design.html
DesignInstructional & Learning DesignOnline LearningTrendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3402-Hello-LX-Learning-Experience-Design.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34020http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3402ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6742 --><img alt="LX" class="serendipity_image_right" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/LX.png" style="border-style:solid; border-width:0px; margin:5px; width:200px" title="LX" />I have been teaching since 1975. I have done instructional design (ID) since 2000. The job of an ID was not one I knew much about before I started managing a department tasked with doing it at a university. I hired people trained in ID, but I learned it myself along the way.</p>
<p>As others have said,<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/08/02/what-do-instructional-designers-do"> the job of an instructional designer seems mysterious</a>. One suggestion has been to change the title to Learning Experience Designer. Does that better describe the job and also apply to people who work in corporate and training settings?</p>
<p>I have taught courses about UX (user experience) which involves a "person’s behaviors, attitudes, and emotions about using a particular product, system or service” (according to Wikipedia). Part of that study involves UI (user interface) which&#160;“includes the practical, experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects” of the interaction as well as “a person’s perceptions of system aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency.”</p>
<p>With more online learning and also blended online and face-to-face learning, there is more attention being given to the learner experience (LX). How students interact with learning, seems to be more than what&#160;“user experience” (UX) entails.</p>
<p>UX was coined in the mid ‘1990s by Don Norman. He was then VP&#160;of advanced technology at Apple, and he used it to describe the relationship between a product and a human. It was&#160;Norman's idea that technology should evolve to put user needs first. That was actually the opposite of how things were done at Apple and most companies. But by 2005, UX was fairly mainstream.</p>
<p>"<a href="http://www.learningexperiencedesign.com/index.html" target="_blank">Learning experience design</a>" was&#160;coined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsfloor/">Niels Floor</a> in 2007, who&#160;taught at Avans University of&#160;Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>I wrote earlier here about how some people in education still find the job of <a href="http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3431-Is-Instructional-Design-Still-Mysterious.html" target="_blank">an instructional designer to be "mysterious."</a>&#160; But call it <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-06-20-ux-to-lx-the-rise-of-learner-experience-design" target="_blank">UX or LX or ID</a>, customizing learning, especially online, is a quite active job categories in industry and and education. Designers are using new tools and analytics to decode learning patterns.</p>
<p>In higher-education job postings and descriptions, I am seeing more examples of LX design as a discipline. That is why some&#160;people have said that <a href="https://christytucker.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/learning-experience-design-a-better-title-than-instructional-design/" target="_blank">Learning Experience Design is a better title than Instructional Design</a>. It indicates a shift away from “instruction” and more to "learning."&#160;</p>
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:55:00 -0400http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3402-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Is Our Group a Learning Community, Learning Circle or Community of Practice?http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3468-Is-Our-Group-a-Learning-Community,-Learning-Circle-or-Community-of-Practice.html
Education 2.0LearningLearning SpacesPedagogyhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3468-Is-Our-Group-a-Learning-Community,-Learning-Circle-or-Community-of-Practice.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34680http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3468ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p>Though there are differences, you will often find the terms Learning Community,&#160;Learning Circle and Community of Practice used interchangeably. They are all&#160;groups of individuals who learn from each other, and with each other, on an ongoing basis&#160;with the goal of improving their work.&#160;</p>
<p>Like any network&#160;of people, communities of practice are generally&#160;self-organized by people who share common work practice. As with the other labels, any&#160;of these&#160;relationship groupings have a desire to share what they know, support one another, and create new knowledge for their field of practice.</p>
<p>But communities of practice (CoP) differ from networks in that they are intended to be "communities" in which people make a commitment to be there for each other. They should participate not just for their own needs, but to serve the needs of others.</p>
<p>A CoP is very "open source" with a commitment to advance the field of practice&#160;and to&#160;make their resources and knowledge available to anyone, especially those doing related work.</p>
<p>A learning circle is a highly interactive, participatory structure for organizing group work. The goal is to build, share, and express knowledge though a process of open dialogue and deep reflection around issues or problems with a focus on a shared outcome.</p>
<p>Online learning circles take advantage of social networking tools to manage collaborative work over distances following a timeline from the open to close of the circle. Learning circles usually have a final project or goal which collects the shared knowledge generated during the interactions. Learning circles are a way to organize learning in global projects. They are also being used in Massive&#160;Open Online Courses (MOOCs).</p>
<p><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9asVuChS04Q" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>But again, there is crossover with these terms. I have even seen articles about "<a href="https://www.mededportal.org/publication/9896/" target="_blank">Creating a Community of Practice Using Learning Circles</a>"&#160;</p>
<p>Almost anyone&#160;can <a href="https://www.p2pu.org/en/facilitate/" target="_blank">facilitate a learning circle</a>, whether it is a&#160;single learning circle in your home or multiple circles across a an organization like a university or library system.&#160;</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.p2pu.org/en/handbook/" target="_blank">A Handbook for starting a Learning Circle - from P2PU.org</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/learning-circles-in-schools" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;">Primary, Middle and Secondary School Learning Circles&#160;</a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/learning-circles-in-schools" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;" target="_blank">to promote Global Education</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/professional-development-lc" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;" target="_blank">Professional Development Learning Circles for Teachers at IEARN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/profdev" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;" target="_blank">The Global Conversation - A Cross University Course for Study Abroad Program</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/profdev/action-research-learning-circles" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;">Action Research Learning Circle</a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/profdev/action-research-learning-circles" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;" target="_blank">s at Pepperdine University Graduate School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinelearningcircles/Home/aea-learning-circles" style="color: rgb(0, 42, 54) !important;" target="_blank">Learning Circles for Researchers by American Evaluation Association</a></li>
</ul>
Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:05:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3468-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Education Trends 2017http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3467-Education-Trends-2017.html
Trendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3467-Education-Trends-2017.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34670http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3467ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6781 --><img alt="trends" class="serendipity_image_center" src="http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday//images/stories/education-industry-trends-5_121917015621.jpg" style="width:555px" /></p>
<p>The headline came up this week in my feed, "5 Education themes that impacted the industry in 2017." The caveat, perhaps, is that this story ran <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/education-themes-that-impacted-2017/1/1113418.html" target="_blank">in the <em>India Times</em>,</a> which made me curious how different those trends might be from the U.S.</p>
<p>They mention that trying to show ROI from earlier trends (flipped classrooms, multilingual learning, faculty professional development,&#160;gamification, personalized and adaptive learning, online secure infrastructure, knowledge networks and virtual simulated practice environments&#160;etc.) and being pushed to stay ahead of the technology curve might make adoption of newer trends more difficult. Education apps for content, distribution, and collaboration are also in the mix.</p>
<p>In India, the e-learning market hit almost 11 billion in USD in 2016. Here are the 5&#160;trends seen there this year in brief (in this article's perspective).</p>
<p><strong>Personalized learning</strong>&#160;- bundling content in a specific learning environment that meets the individual student's needs.&#160;Content is generally delivered through online and micro learning.</p>
<p><strong>The Cloud </strong>- has become cheaper, faster and green.</p>
<p><strong>Safeguarding Personal Identifiable Information (PII)</strong> - Our&#160;digital footprints - both intentional and unintentional ones - leave learners open to even more vulnerabilities than the average citizen, but losing data and reputation besides the financial damage and emotional distress and overall risk. 4</p>
<p><strong>Gamification, Simulations and Digital Badging</strong>&#160;- this has been a "trend" for so many years without ever being fully realized that I wonder if it belongs on trend lists any more. Yes, phone apps use gamification as a technique to keep you hooked through notifications, points, and rewards, so that learners are already used to using to them - and probably expect them in many instances. I still don't see a widely accepted of awarding achievement or recognition.&#160;</p>
<p><strong>Leveraging Learning Analytics</strong>&#160;- AI plays a role in making it possible for a machine to learn over millions of interaction inputs and predict student errors, trends and projections.</p>
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:42:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3467-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Net Neutrality and Educationhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3466-Net-Neutrality-and-Education.html
Trendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3466-Net-Neutrality-and-Education.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34660http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3466ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently voted to repeal the net neutrality framework put in place by the Obama administration. This opens the path for restructuring&#160;internet traffic. There are many in education that this will have negative&#160;implications on both K-12 and higher education.&#160;The five-member, Republican-majority board voted along party lines (3-2) to pass the “Restoring Internet Freedom Order.” Efforts&#160;by activists, educators, consumers and U.S. lawmakers to stop or reschedule the vote until the commission had heard more public concerns on the matter were ignored.</p>
<p>At&#160;<a href="http://edscoop.com/net-neutrality-changes-expected-to-have-big-implications-on-education" target="_blank">edscoop.com</a>, they write&#160;that Net neutrality changes are expected to have big implications for education.</p>
<p>Excerpt:&#160;</p>
<blockquote>There’s a major concern that commercial, revenue-generating internet traffic will take precedence. The quality and consistency of access to research, libraries, educational institutions and learning materials could be degraded as those resources are moved to the slow lane to make room for commercial and entertainment traffic that can pay for speed.<br />
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&#160;After Dec. 14, higher education will face a new online world — one in which the almighty dollar, not equity, will reign,” wrote Joseph South, the chief learning officer at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Eden Dahlstrom, the executive director of the New Media Consortium, in <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/Digital-Life-in-the-Slow-Lane/241965" target="_blank">a commentary featured in <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education</em></a> earlier this month."</blockquote>
<p>&#160;</p>
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:48:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3466-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Bleeding Edgy Deep Learninghttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3465-Bleeding-Edgy-Deep-Learning.html
Education 2.0LearningMOOCThe Disconnectedhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3465-Bleeding-Edgy-Deep-Learning.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34650http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3465ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p>Deep learning is a hot topic right now, but it is not lightweight or something I would imagine learners who are not in the computer science world to take very seriously. But I stumbled upon this video introduction that certainly goes for an edgier presentation of this serious subject and obviously is trying to appeal to a non-traditional audience.</p>
<p>That audience would be part of what I refer to as both <a href="http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/categories/42-Education-20" target="_blank">Education 2.0</a> and also that segment of learners who are <a href="http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/categories/48-The-Disconnected" target="_blank">The Disconnected</a>.&#160; I see these disconnected learners as a wider age group than "Millennials." They are the potential students in our undergraduate and graduate programs, but also older people already in the workplace looking to move or advance their careers. The younger ones have never been connected to traditional forms of media consumption and services&#160;and have no plan to ever be connected to them. And that is also how they feel about education. You learn where and when you can learn with little concern for credits and degrees.</p>
<p>The video I found (below) is an "Intro to Deep Learning" billed as being&#160;"for anyone who wants to become a deep learning engineer." It is supposed to take you from "the very basics of deep learning to the bleeding edge over the course of 4 months." That is quite a trip.&#160;</p>
<p>The sample video is on how to predict an animal’s body weight given it’s brain weight using linear regression via 10 lines of Python.</p>
<p>Though the YouTube content (created by and starring <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A" target="_blank">Siraj Raval</a>)&#160;is&#160;totally free, he also has a&#160;partnership with Udacity in order to offer a new <a href="https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning-nanodegree-foundation--nd101" target="_blank">Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation&#160;program</a>.&#160;Udacity will also be providing guaranteed admission to their Artificial Intelligence and Self-Driving Car Nanodegree programs to all graduates.&#160;</p>
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<iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vOppzHpvTiQ" width="560"></iframe>
<p>Is this a good marketing effort bu Udacity? Will it reach new and disconnected learners? Will they simply use the videos and resources to learn or make that connection to some kind of degree/certification that might tell an employer that they know something about deep learning? I don't have the deep learning program that can predict that. I'm not sure it exists. Yet.</p>
<p><strong>RESOURCES</strong></p>
<p>This is the <a href="https://github.com/llSourcell/linear_regression_demo" target="_blank">code via GitHub for "How to Make a Prediction - Intro to Deep Learning #1'</a> by Siraj Raval on YouTube</p>
<p>This lesson uses simple linear regression. "Simple" is a relative term here, as many people would not find it simple, as in "easy." It is a statistical method that allows us to summarize and study relationships between two continuous (quantitative) variables. This <a href="https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat501/node/250" target="_blank">lesson via Penn State</a>&#160;introduces the concept and basic procedures of simple linear regression.</p>
<p>You might also want to look at this&#160;tutorial on the topic via&#160;<a href="https://machinelearningmastery.com/simple-linear-regression-tutorial-for-machine-learning/" target="_blank">machinelearningmastery.com</a>.</p>
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:06:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3465-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Where We Workhttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3462-Where-We-Work.html
Learning SpacesThe DisconnectedTrendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3462-Where-We-Work.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34620http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3462ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6777 --><img alt="workplace" class="serendipity_image_center" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/workplace_pixa.jpg" style="width:600px" title="workplace" />There have been at least two decades of people meeting online. Face to face meeting went the way of face to face classes - moving online. Then there was a reaction to too many online meetings. People wanted to be with people again.&#160;</p>
<p>Enter <a href="https://www.meetup.com/" target="_blank">Meetup</a>, whose purpose is to connect people to one another in the real world around interests (learning Spanish, writing poetry, political activism etc.)&#160;Meetup has 35 million members and now <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/why-wework-is-buying-meetup/" target="_blank">it will merge with its new owner WeWork</a>.&#160;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wework.com/" target="_blank">WeWork</a> is a global network of workspaces. They offer people spaces&#160;for creativity, focus, connection. Spaces to work.&#160;WeWork is now valued at close to $20 billion - that's the tech startup&#160;land of Uber and Airbnb.</p>
<p>This merger news got me thinking again about learning spaces. The WeWork/Meetup models are not irrelevant to the ideas of face to face, online and especially hybrid learning models - and the spaces that work best for those modes of learning.</p>
<p>Think about how much talk there is about the importance of informal learning. That is a kind of learning that is not best suited for a classroom with rows of desks facing an instructor up front. Online learning is effective when learners have a sense of a space, virtual though it ma be, and a sense of community online. Hybrid or blended learning need to use the best of both those worlds.</p>
<p>It might be fruitful for educators to study what Meetup and WeWork do well and see if it can be applied to educational settings.</p>
<p style="text-align:right"><em>This post first appeared on&#160;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-we-work-learn-kenneth-ronkowitz/" target="_blank">Linkedin.com/pulse/</a></em></p>
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 08:44:00 -0500http://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3462-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Immersive Learning Spaceshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3458-Immersive-Learning-Spaces.html
AI, Robots, VR/ARClassroomDigital HumanitiesLearning SpacesTrendshttp://www.serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/3458-Immersive-Learning-Spaces.html#commentshttp://www.serendipity35.net/wfwcomment.php?cid=34580http://www.serendipity35.net/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=3458ronkowitz@gmail.com (Ken Ronkowitz)
<p><!-- s9ymdb:6774 --><img alt="CAEE Immersive Classroom Concept" class="serendipity_image_center" src="http://www.serendipity35.net/uploads/CAEE_Immersive_Classroom_Concept1.png" style="border-style:solid; border-width:0px; width:546px" /></p>
<p>Immersive learning spaces will make use of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) but most attention on those technologies are around&#160;consumer use, especially gaming. What will be the other markets? Is education one of those markets?</p>
<p>Microsoft has been pushing its HoloLens AR headset as an enterprise product, but only in industrial applications. Ford, for example, is using HoloLens headsets to improve its design process, allowing modifications of both its clay models and real cars to be viewed and modified on the fly, without having to re-sculpt or rebuild anything. ThyssenKrupp has been&#160;equipping service technicians with HoloLens headsets that show the faults they're trying to diagnose. Engineers remotely can can annotate the physical infrastructure technicians are seeing and guide maintenance and repairs.</p>
<p>A recent <a href="https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/10/vr-and-ar-designing-spaces-for-immersive-learning" target="_blank">EDUCAUSE article</a>&#160;predicts that in another decade, "immersive technology will become nearly ubiquitous and virtually unnoticeable, embodied in our eyeglasses and other wearable devices. But before we get there, we have the exciting opportunity to build our understanding of pedagogical frameworks, design new physical and virtual learning spaces, and create transformative learning experiences with immersive technologies."&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;</p>
<p>VR and AR are found in some makerspaces in libraries and media centers, but thinking more creatively about their use in the design of learning spaces is still at an early stage.</p>
<p>Innovative spaces include both formal and informal opportunities for learning. Some of this requires&#160;physical spaces, but it also includes simple design choices such as offering a&#160;swivel chair for 360 degree viewing.&#160;</p>
<p>For education, pricing is an important factor for adoption and&#160;VR headset pricing is slowly but surely approaching costs that will make them more attractive for schools.</p>
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<p><strong>FURTHER READING</strong><br />
<a href="https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/10/vr-and-ar-transforming-learning-and-scholarship-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences" target="_blank">VR and AR: Transforming Learning and Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.iqsdirectory.com/blog/virtual-reality-devices-now-theyre-going/" target="_blank">Virtual Reality Devices – Where They Are Now and Where They’re Going</a></p>
<p><a href="https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/8/vr-and-ar-driving-a-revolution-in-medical-education-and-patient-care target=">VR and AR: Driving a Revolution in Medical Education &amp; Patient Care</a></p>
<p><a href="https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2017/8/ar-and-vr-in-stem-the-new-frontiers-in-science" target="_blank">AR and VR in STEM: The New Frontiers in Science</a></p>
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